AC invited me to the Castro Theatre tonight for The Little Mermaid sing-along, and it was an epic experience.
The Castro Theatre is a beautiful old theater on the main drag of the Castro. It's the most gorgeous movie theater I've seen, with beautiful red curtains and ornate gold details. It's also the only theater I've ever been to that features a real, live organist before every show. Tonight, the organ rose up from below the stage as the organist played classic Disney songs. And, of course, the audience was singing along.
Being in the middle of the huge crowd was surreal. It was a packed house, full of enthusiastic Little Mermaid fans, and a few of the moviegoers came in full costume (people take their costumes very seriously in San Francisco). There were about a dozen Ariels, a handful of Ursulas, three or four Prince Erics, and two slightly more creative people who dressed as "water." We sat toward the back, and all you could see across the theater was a sea of grownups and kids wearing gold cardboard crowns, holding their fish-shaped noisemakers in the air, and blowing oceans of bubbles around the room. When the movie started, the audience cheered so loudly you could hardly hear the movie. There's something thrilling about being part of a huge crowd that's cheering, booing, and singing along together. And it's so much fun to have permission to just be ridiculously loud and silly with a bunch of other ridiculously loud and silly people.
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